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bga_796677 - CENTER, UNSPECIFIED Bronze à l'aigle (semis ou quadrans), imitation

CENTER, UNSPECIFIED Bronze à l aigle (semis ou quadrans), imitation AU/AU
400.00 €(Approx. 420.00$ | 332.00£)
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Type : Bronze à l'aigle (semis ou quadrans), imitation
Date: c. 15-10 AC.
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 18 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,02 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Très bel exemplaire sur un flan légèrement décentré au droit et idéalement centré au revers. Manque de métal à deux heure. Joli portrée d’Auguste, et un superbe revers avec un aigle particulièrement bien venu à la frappe et finement détaillé. Patine sombre
Catalogue references :

Obverse


Obverse legend : IMP - CAESAR.
Obverse description : Tête laurée d’Auguste à droite ; grènetis.
Obverse translation : “Imperator Cæsar”, (l’empereur césar).

Reverse


Reverse legend : [AVGVST]VS.
Reverse description : Aigle de face, la tête tournée à gauche, les ailes déployées.
Reverse translation : “Augustus”, (Augustus).

Commentary


A mi-chemin entre les monnaies romaines et les monnaies gauloises, ce rare bronze est d’un style merveilleux, avec une élégante épigraphie IMP CAESAR.
Le portrait d’Auguste est “celtisé”, avec une modification du traitement de l’œil, du nez et de la bouche.

Historical background


CENTER, UNSPECIFIED

(1st century BC)

Often these monetary series with the eagle (RPC. 508 = RIC. 227 = BN 4730) or the bull (RPC. 509 = RIC 228 = LT. 9266) were given to the imperial mint in Lyon. This attribution is questioned by the celticists who prefer to see in it a purely local coinage. The authors of the Roman Provincial Coinage would like to recognize there auxiliary workshops, dependent on the capital of Gaul and having perhaps minted on behalf of the troops stationed in the region. In fact, it could be Romanized issues of the Aedui, Sequani or Lingones, or even Leuci or Treveri. The workshop or workshops that would have manufactured these species are still located north of Lyon. These workshops would then have fulfilled the same role as Vienna, Orange, Narbonne, Lyon or Nîmes some thirty years earlier: the creation, supply and distribution of small extra cash in order to supplement or replace the demonetized purely Celtic coinage.

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